Tombstone Tuesday: Major Thomas Seward

Reader
Beneath this Stone is depositedthe Remains of
MAJOR THOMAS SEWARD
who gallantly fought
in our late revolutionary War
and through
its various scenes behavedwith Patriotic fortitude
& died in the calms
of domestic felicity as becomes
a Universal-ChristianNovr. 27th 1800 AEtat 60The lovely turf where silence lays her headThe mound where pity sighs for hond. dead*Such is the grief where sorrow now doth sighTo learn to live is but to learn to die